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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.

Ludwig von Mises

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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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